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Three Pointers about power of walking and talking
Welcome to our guest mini blog with experts from the world of health and wellness… This week we’re delighted to welcome Carmen Rendell to share her “3 Pointers”… small, easy to adopt steps we can all make to help us feel better day-to-day, leading to a healthier, happier and more thriving life. Carmen, aka The Soulwalker
It’s Time to Talk by Nicky Morgan
Today is Time to Talk Day – a day created by Time for Change to encourage everyone to have a conversation about mental health. In their own words: “We know that talking about mental health can feel awkward, but it doesn’t have to.” In October 2019 Public Health England launched the Every Mind Matters campaign
Three Pointers on finding motivation
3 Pointers on Finding Motivation – Dr Megan Swanson Welcome to our guest mini blog with experts from the world of health and wellness… This week we’re delighted to welcome Dr Megan Swanson to share her “3 Pointers” around finding motivation to keep you focused on your goals/intentions this year… small, easy to adopt steps we
Three Pointers to goal setting
Welcome to our new guest mini blog with experts from the world of health and wellness… Every couple of weeks we will ask an expert to share their “3 Pointers” around a different wellbeing theme – small, easy to adopt steps we can all make to help us feel better day-to-day, leading to a healthier, happier
My 2020 Vision by Siôn Stansfield
For me, my goals keep me calm; they give me the focus that I need to have clarity on the decisions I make. I like to feel like I’m achieving, and that often comes down to giving each task that I’m working on a greater sense of purpose, and therefore motivating me further to achieve
My 2020 Vision by Nicky Morgan
Goals. I’m going to say it, I don’t really like the word. Goals make me think of something big, brash, looming, intimidating… tantalising and always slightly out of reach. I don’t know when it happened, but my mind links the word “goal” with pressure, pain and struggle. If I set a “goal” and I don’t
My 2020 Vision by Sarah Mayo
Happy new year/decade! And welcome to the twenties, a decade with a name, joy! I like this time of year. Not because of the weather, or the post-festive fatigue; I like this time of year because it’s an opportunity to get back into my routines. Routines are important for me. As much as they might
18 months young…
18 months ago (June 2018) we officially set off on our mission to help people “stress less and smile more”. Honestly speaking, we didn’t really know what that would look like, and we certainly couldn’t have envisioned where we would be today (December 2020). But we were clear on one thing… and that was that
WELLBEING AND WHY IT MATTERS IN THE WORKPLACE
On Wednesday 9 October, TRO hosted a panel discussion in collaboration with POINT3 Wellbeing, exploring mental health and wellbeing in the workplace in support of World Mental Health Day. The theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Day was suicide and suicide prevention. Every year close to 800,000 people globally take their own life and
Money Matters
Life’s Riches by Nicky Morgan Starting a new business – for the first time – brings with it many new experiences; coming up with a name for the business, registering the business, selling your first product (the joy!) and (almost certainly at first), not taking a monthly salary. In early 2018, my two colleagues and
Burn Brightly
Managing our energy, and our performance by Sion Stansfield How do we achieve amazing performance more often than not? The right balance of energy will allow us to think, feel and act at our best, maximising our performance in life. Understanding how we make that energy and how we burn it – having this awareness
Goal Setting in Edinburgh
Katharine Millar, HR Manager Delta Energy and Environment said: “POINT3 Wellbeing recently delivered a thought-provoking goal setting workshop which was timed to coincide with our end of year performance reviews. “It gave staff the permission to think about their lives beyond work and to set some meaningful goals for the year ahead that would make
Relax, just do it
National Relaxation Day is marked every year on August 15th – a day to highlight the need to focus more on taking care of ourselves, by giving ourselves permission to slow down, unwind and recover from the everyday stresses of life as we know it these days. Why we need to relax more… We know
Wellbeing for Dentists
Amanda Morris-Steele, Managing Director, Just Watch Events Ltd said: “We advised our client to open their inaugural conference with a wellbeing session from POINT3, although this was different from the usual expectancy of a business update, the delegates had a great start to the day! The session from Sion and Sarah allowed everyone to begin
Community Matters for Crescendo
Russell Allen, Founder, Crescendo Brand Events said: “I found the content absolutely stimulating and bang on where we are right now as a business. For someone who finds it difficult to keep rooted in a meeting room for any length of time I was totally captivated by the graceful way you navigated such stimulating and
It all points to wellbeing
Sarah Mayo, co-founder of POINT3 Wellbeing speaks to Exhibition News about wellbeing in the exhibitions industry… “The exhibitions industry is no doubt a special one; bringing people together whether in a work or lifestyle capacity. The live environment offers a truly unique opportunity for people to meet, learn and be inspired as well as build
Mental Health Awareness at Lonely Planet
LUCY MINIHAN, HR EMEA, LONELY PLANET SAID: “POINT3 delivered a really engaging talk to our staff during Mental Health Awareness Week. We took time to self-reflect on our personal wellbeing needs, and learned some practical tools to help manage the effects of day-to-day stress better. Thank you, we’d love to work with POINT3 again!” If
Meaningful Tech Connections – By Anna Kotwinski
How to create a positive relationship with ourselves and our technology We’re delighted to interview Anna Kotwinski, co-founder of Shine Offline in our expert interview this month, about establishing Meaningful Tech Connections. Shine Offline are a digital wellbeing consultancy that helps businesses support their staff to have healthy, effective relationships with their smartphones and other
MOVE MORE NATURALLY – PART 2
When movement interrupts mindfulness. How to move more pain free with Kieran Lowe We recently caught up with Kieran Lowe, an osteopath and sports rehabilitator to discuss when movement interrupts mindfulness. Kieran has been working within healthcare for over 14 years supporting elite and amateur level athletes in the UK and abroad. More recently Kieran
Thrive not Survive
WANT, BELIEVE, THRIVE by Sarah Mayo As I sit here with the task of writing a blog on stepping out of your comfort zone, I’m inspired by the words of Napoleon Hill who said “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Just writing and reading these words gives me that
Meaningful Connections
Community Matters by Nicky Morgan Whenever I come to write a blog there’s always a funny circumstance that occurs which helps to get my story started. Today it’s been WIFI, or as it turns out, a lack of WIFI. Today I’ve been working from home – something I tend to do a couple of times